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One Company’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
I first learned about a strange new virus emanating from Central China during a business lunch meeting in Tokyo in mid-January 2020. My Japanese colleague knew few details about the...Read more
Bruce Ortwine
General Counsel (retired), Americas; Adviser, Global Legal and Compliance (Retired), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc., USA
Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation
SLAPP lawsuits are a strategic litigation tool where the aim is more often than not, not so much to win or get a remedy, as to silence or discourage criticism...Read more

Gillian Phillips
Director Editorial Legal Services , Guardian News and Media Limited , UK
Leaning in and the Rules of Attraction – One Legal Team’s Experience of Engaging Internal Clients in a Fast Growth Tech Business


How should a small legal team in a fast growth fintech business engage with internal clients? How do we make sure that we are doing the right work at the...Read more
Sharon Evans
General Counsel, TotallyMoney, UK

Stephanie Woods
Senior Legal Counsel , TotallyMoney , UK
Evaluating the Role of Negotiations in the Alternative Dispute Resolution System

Although English courts, in general, have been encouraging Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in all its forms, the lawyers’ community in England and Wales, it is believed, would appreciate that the...Read more

Anna Lefcovitch
Solicitor, Arcadis, UK

Professor Charles Chatterjee
Senior Research Fellow, Global Policy Institute , UK
In-House Counsel’s Guide to Surviving Without Business Travel
Business travel may not return to its pre-pandemic levels for many years, but the need for face-to-face meetings to negotiate complex transactions has not diminished. While technology has helped facilitate...Read more

Todd Krieger
Director of International Transactions and Senior Counsel, InterSystems Corporation, USA
Regulatory Guillotine
The Russian legislation system faces a difficult task in reviewing and updating an enormous accumulation of regulations, standards and guideline – thousands that have built up over the years, often,...Read more
Oraz Durdyev
Legal & Corporate Affairs Director, Russia, Middle East , AB InBev Efes, Russia
Sustainability Management: The Role of the Legal Department

In recent years we have observed a rising internal and external pressure on companies to improve their sustainability-related performances; companies responded with an exponential increase in sustainability reporting and planning...Read more
Federico Piccaluga
General Counsel, Duferco Participations Holding SA, Switzerland
Stuck in the Middle with You: When U.S. Discovery Orders Hit the GDPR


Civil litigants in the United States have broad rights to information—from each other and from others not involved in the litigation, whether or not they are within ...Read more

Matthias Artzt
Senior Legal Counsel, Deutsche Bank AG, Germany

Gary Weingarden
Counsel, Data Protection Officer, Notarize, Inc., USA
Competition Law Compliance in a Socially Distanced World
As a result of the COVID-19 Pandemic, working life has changed for millions of people. The need to keep a distance from others in order to try to limit the...Read more

Ian Rose
VP Compliance, Volvo Trucks, Sweden
Impacts That Social Distancing Rules Resulting from the Pandemic Have had on the Development of Distance Selling of Insurance Products and Effects of the Emergency Legislation Issued in Italy
Technological innovation has become a driver of change capable of influencing the entire process of insurance companies’ strategic, organisational and commercial development and is having a significant impact on the...Read more

Cristina Rustignoli
General Counsel , Generali Italia, Italy